From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 26 19:44:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B33E10656C2 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:44:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE8B8FC15 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:44:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n2QJiUmZ047272; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:44:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n2QJiS0e047269; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:44:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:44:28 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Robert Huff In-Reply-To: <18891.41491.32334.303252@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Message-ID: References: <49CB957F.30807@waywood.co.uk> <20090326112408.8cf4aa95.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <18891.41491.32334.303252@jerusalem.litteratus.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Barnaby Scott , Bill Moran , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Wine without X X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:44:40 -0000 >> part of MS Windows ... I can't imagine how wine would work at all >> without X installed -- which is probably why you're not getting >> any answers. > > I'm not that familiar with Wine - does it support use of the > Windows command prompt? I can conceive of a program which requires > Windows libraries or the kernel, but does not use the gui. that's possible. anyway - if you can't build wine without X, built it with X, it will only install X libraries nothing else and it will work when command line utils will be used.